168 | December, 1871. 
We have before us Parts 1 and 2 of the new edition of this standard work, | 
To the entomologist, who must constantly make the microscope subservient to 
his investigations, it will prove of great value, more especially the instructions in 
manipulation conveyed in the introductory portion. To the microscopist pur et 
simple, an individual towards whom we confess to a deficiency in our bump of 
veneration, it is indispensable. The work is illustrated by many, partly coloured, 
plates, and by innumerable woodcuts, and the “ getting up” is creditable alike to 
editors, printers, and publisher. 
EntomonocicaL Socrrry or Lonpon, 6th November, 1871.-- Prof. J. O. 
Westwoop, M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Davis exhibited a collection of beautifully preserved larvae of Lepidoptera 
and other insects, some of these illustrating almost a complete natural history of 
the species. 
Mr. Bond exhibited two examples of Zygena evulans from Braemar, received 
from Dr. Buchanan White; a Catocala frawini captured in the Regent’s Park on the 
12th September; and a singular variety of Cherocampa Elpenor from Tpswich, 
having the central portion of each fore-wing completely hyaline. 
Mr. Janson (for the Rey. A. Matthews) exhibited two recently detected 
species of British Coleoptera, viz., Throscus carinifrons (see Ent. Mo. Mag., viii, p. 
185), and Cryphalus picee. 
Mr. McLachlan exhibited Bittacus apterus, recently described and figured in 
this Magazine. 
Mr. H. Vaughan exhibited the dark form of Triphena orbona captured at 
Forres by Mr. Norman, and described as T. Curtisii by Newman. Mr. W. A. Lewis 
pointed out the synonymy of this form, it having been confounded with ‘I’. consequa 
and T. subsequa by Curtis and Stephens respectively. Mr. Vaughan also exhibited 
a nearly black variety of Arge Galathea captured by Mr. Farn. 
Mr. Miller exhibited the impregnated and unimpregnated eges of Libellula 
flaveola referred to in the November number of this Magazine; also a gigantio 
oak-gall, from N. America, given to him by Mr. Riley. 
Professor Westwood exhibited numerous specimens of an ant not hitherto 
recorded as British, the true Formica herculeana of Linné. These had been found 
in the proventriculus of an example of the great black woodpecker, Picus martius, 
said to have been shot in Wytham Wood near Oxford. From the fresh state of 
both bird and ants, and from the fact that these latter had not passed into the 
gizzard, he was inclined to fully believe the statement of the British origin of the 
bird, especially as this had been sold at a price indicating that the vendor, a labour- 
ing man, had no knowledge of its value. Mr. Jenner Weir, and other Members, 
utterly disbelieved the supposed British origin of the woodpecker in question. 
Prof. Westwood also exhibited two male examples of Papilio Crino from Ceylon, 
one of which presented a character in the hairy clothing of some of the viens, 
which, though usual in many species, was not considered an attribute of this. 
Mr. F. Smith exhibited a Noctua, apparently of the genus Aplecta, captured by 
Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys on the Atlantic, 220 miles from Nova Scotia, and on the outward 
voyage. (Since identified with Aplecta occulta.) 
Baron Chaudoir communicated notes on Eurygnathus parallelus, combating 
Mr. Wollaston’s recently expressed opinion that it was only a form of EF. Latreillei. 
Mr. Briggs read a paper ‘‘ On the forms of Zygena trifolii,with some remarks 
on the question of specific differences as opposed to local or phytophagic variation 
in that genus.” 
